Clean-up crew plan for Labor

LABOR’S national executive is to step in to clean up the Victorian branch, taking over preselections and appointing two administrators.

Three frontbenchers have been forced out of the Victorian state cabinet over a branch-stacking scandal.

The national leadership is expected to appoint former premier Steve Bracks and former federal minister Jenny Macklin as administrators to oversee the clean-up until the end of January.

A draft resolution said all voting rights in the Victorian branch would be suspended until 2023 and federal and state preselections would be run by the national executive.

“I have no confidence in the integrity of any voting rolls produced for any internal elections in the Victorian branch,”

Premier Daniel Andrews wrote to the executive.

An initial report on new integrity measures would be due in July while a final report would be submitted in November.

The draft motion said the national executive had asked that new measures ensured that the Victorian branch solely comprised “genuine, consenting, self-funding party members”.

Party powerbroker Adem Somyurek has been banished from Labor after being caught handing over cash and using parliamentary staff to create fake branch members and amass political influence. Two of his allies — Robin Scott and Marlene Kairouz — have also resigned from the ministry.

The scandal exposed by 60 Minutes threatens to seep through federal Labor ranks.